Improvement in line-fasteners



F. WAGNER.

LINE-FA-STENER. v No. 171,890. Patented J'an.4,18-76.

UNITED STATES FRANZ WAGNER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR T0 EDMUND F. BONA- I VENTURE, CHARLES RAETTIG, GARLTHEODORE KURTZMANN, AND AN- DREAS HAAS, OF SAME PLAOE.

PATENT OEEIoE.

IMPROVEMENT IN LINE-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 171,890, dated January 4, 1876; application filed December 7, 1875.

To allwhom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANZ WAGNER, of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-Line Adjuster, of which the following is a specification Figure 1 is a longitudinal central section of my improved clothes-line adjuster. Fig. 2 is an end View of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

This invention relates to a hollow clamp, which, when drawn over the loop of a rope or line, through which anotherrope or line is loosely drawn, will firmly clamp the two ropes or lines together, and prevent the one from sliding in the other. The said clamp is to be chiefly used on clothes-lines as an adjuster of their length, but is also applicable to the lines on board ship, on flag-stafl's, and in fact to all manner and kind of ropes, lines, cords, strings, and even to chains.

The invention consists of a sliding sleeve or thimble, made with a tapering bore, which is usually flattened at its smaller end, as hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawing, the letter A represents my improved clothes-line adjuster, the same being made of wood, metal, or other suitable material, of cylindricalor other desirable external form, and ot' the appropriate size. It is provided with a central or nearly central bore or passage, a, of tapering form. At the smaller end this passage is preferably flattened or contracted, in the manner indicated in Fig. 2, to be as high about as one thickness, and as wide about as two thickloosely through a loop of the rope B, which loop passes through the small end of the opening in the adjuster, as shown. Whenthe rope O is to be secured-in anygiven position in the loop B, the adjuster is-pushed in the direction of the arrow 1, to clamp in its tapering aper- I ture the doubled end of the rope (3. Were it not for the flattening of the small end of the opening a the rope 0 could in most cases be drawn through the same opening through which the two thicknesses of the rope Bare passed. But by flattening the opening in the manner stated the clamping ot' the bend of the rope (J is insured, and the two lines are properly joined without knotting or other tedious process yet, for thicker ropes, the flattening of the small end of the passage a may be dispensed with, as long as said small end is of a size to admit only two thicknesses of the rope, as a glance at Fig. 1 will show that three thicknesses would have to pass in order to draw the bend of the rope O entirely through the adjuster.

When it is desired to extendor shorten' the rope (J the adjuster is moved in the direction of the arrow 2, relieving the junction of the two ropes from pressure. The rope O can then be drawn farther through the loop of B in either direction, and reclamped in the desired position by pushing the adjuster back in the direction of the arrow 1.

For clothes'lines this invention will be particularly useful. In such case the loop B should be fastened to a hook or other stationary device, and the endof the main line 0 drawn loosely through said loop, and then clamped. The line may then be easily stretched orslackeued in the manner described.

I claim as my invention- 7 The rope or line adjuster and clamp A, constructed with the tapering passage a, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described. l

The above description of my invention signed by me this 3d day of December, 1875.

FltANZ WAGNER.

Witnesses:

F. V. BRIESEN, ERNEST G. WEBB. 

